Hidden inside muralist sit altruism, muralist, and ultraism, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 262 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
altruism, muralist, and ultraism tie for the highest Scrabble score from muralist at 10 points. The top 10 of 262 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in muralist: two come from rearranging its letters, and muralist itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are altruism, muralist, and ultraism, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in muralist produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rituals. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including atriums, mistral and ramtils.
Unscrambling muralist turns up 21 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with murals, ritual, trails, and trials. For points, 14 words tie at 8 points, including murals, amrits and atrium.
There are 56 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in muralist. If a familiar word is all you need, start with liars, mails and mural. For points, 28 words tie at 7 points, including mails, mural and smart.
Rearranging the letters in muralist produces 100 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, airs and arms. For points, 46 words tie at 6 points, including aims, arms and mail.
Unscrambling muralist turns up 57 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air and arm. For points, 23 words tie at 5 points, including aim, arm and rum.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in muralist. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as and at. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including am, um and ma.
6 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in muralist plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in muralist and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
muralist is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for muralist. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
muralist is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing muralist unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are altruism, muralist, and ultraism, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from muralist earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in muralist produce 262 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 21 six-letter words, 56 five-letter words, 100 four-letter words, 57 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.